Jenni Bowman is a Brooklyn-based producer working across theater, music, new opera, dance, and multidisciplinary performance. She is the founder of ShowShow, a creative producing company dedicated to fully realizing ambitious, artist-driven work. 

Jenni brings 20+ years of experience producing complex live performance independently and at institutions including Park Avenue Armory, International Contemporary Ensemble, Discovery Green in Houston, and Philip Glass’ Days & Nights Festival in California. Jenni moved to NYC in 2006 to produce The Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.

A former stage manager, Jenni helmed the international tour of Glass, Wilson & Child’s Einstein on the Beach and numerous Chekhov productions at Lake Lucille. 

Blurring the lines between theater, performance, and the places we live and work, Melissa Kievman creates site-responsive projects that center community, inquiry, and collective experience. She has produced festivals, creative convenings, artistic partnerships, pop-up performances, and site-specific interventions, while also directing new plays nationally and internationally.

For St. Ann’s Warehouse, Kievman collaborated with Yazmany Arboleda to produce Little Amal Walks NYC, generating 50 activations across all five boroughs. She also served as Producer of the inaugural Brown Arts IGNITE Series, commissioning and activating multidisciplinary work by national, international, and local artists and scholars in celebration of the opening of Brown University’s Lindemann Performing Arts Center.

A former National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Directing Fellow and Drama League Fellow, Kievman previously served as Associate Artistic Director of New Dramatists and spent a decade on the faculty of the Brown | Trinity Rep MFA programs. She is a founding board member of artEquity and a longtime artistic producer of The Lake Lucille Chekhov Project. Her film I Am a Seagull has screened internationally, including at Mass MoCA, Noorderzon, Spoleto, and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival.

Jason is a producer, director, and performer passionate about developing new works that foreground their relationship to the spaces they inhabit and the communities they emerge from. For the last two years, Jason has served as the Season Producer at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, a new play development festival.

Jason’s solo performance, 2000 Words (GRID: Theatre/Archaeology), premiered in Greece and the UK last year. He was the dramaturg for She Speaks, a new work by Harriet Walter (Old Vic Theatre, London). As a Producing Fellow at the Brown University Arts Institute (BAI), he has produced film festivals, public art installations, exhibitions, and performance pieces.

As a seasoned performing arts administrator, Janet Rucker has produced events such as film festivals, symposiums and conferences, outdoor community performances, receptions, and public art installations. As company manager for theatrical productions, multidisciplinary festivals, and individual concert performances, she has a wealth of experience in artist services and problem solving. This includes BOH management, budget oversight, hospitality, and travel arrangements.

In terms of logistics, she’s advanced tours for professional musicians, dancers, and youth orchestras to Canada, France, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, China, and across the United States. This included large volume visa processing, individual and group hotel and flight bookings, hospitality and meal planning, petty cash management, and contracts. She provided management of personnel, liaised with presenters and venues, and provided logistical support throughout the tours.

Her professional experience includes managing operations and logistics for the Ravinia Festival, Carnegie Hall, Performance Space New York, San Francisco Ballet, Lincoln Center, and Park Avenue Armory. She has worked for presenters, artist managers, and small NYC nonprofits as an artist services oriented performing arts administrator.